Pump It Up [live, El Mocambo 1978] Elvis Costello

[Stage banter]
Hey! Up! Up!
Oh yes, another we've got a guest: The Empire State of the E chords, the Giant of the G chords, from Graham Parker and the Rumour, Mr. Marty Belmont!

Yeah! I say yeah! This song is called "Pump It Up", as in standing! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Ahhhh! I see you, and you, up, up! And you, up! He doesn't think I mean it. He doesn't think that I mean it. Hey, up! Up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up!

[Verse 1]
I've been on tenterhooks, ending in dirty looks
Listening to the Muzak, thinking 'bout this 'n' that
She said that's that, I don't wanna chitter-chat
Turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat

[Chorus]
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it

[Verse 2]
Down in the pleasure center, hell-bent or heaven sent
Listen to the propaganda, listen to the latest slander
There's nothing underhand that she wouldn't understand

[Chorus]
Pump it up until you can feel it
Pump it up when you don't really need it

[Verse 3]
She's been a bad girl, she's like a chemical
Though you try to stop it, she's like a narcotic
You wanna torture her, you wanna talk to her
All the things you bought for her, could not get a temperature